This option will not create a database of the path information for all of concepts in the specified set of sources and relations in the config file but obtain the information for just the input concept

This option prints out the path information for debugging purposes.
This option is only really available with the --reatime option because otherwise the path information is stored in the database.
You can get this information in a file if you use the --verbose option while creating the index.

This option takes in a file containing a list of CUIs (one CUI per line) and stores only the path information for those CUIs rather than for all of the CUIs given the specified set of sources and relations

There exist a configuration files to specify which source and what relations are to be used.
The default source is the Medical Subject Heading (MSH) vocabulary and the default relations are the PAR/CHD relation.

The format of the configuration file is as follows:

SAB :: <include|exclude> <source1,
source2,
...
sourceN>

REL :: <include|exclude> <relation1,
relation2,
...
relationN>

The SAB and REL are for specifing what sources and relations should be used when traversing the UMLS.
For example,
if we wanted to use the MSH vocabulary with only the RB/RN relations,
the configuration file would be:

SAB :: include MSH REL :: include RB,
RN

or if we wanted to use MSH and use any relation except for PAR/CHD,
the configuration would be:

SAB :: include MSH REL :: exclude PAR,
CHD

An example of the configuration file can be seen in the samples/ directory.

Bridget T. McInnes, University of Minnesota
bthomson at cs.umn.edu
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth
tpederse at d.umn.edu
Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
sidd@cs.utah.edu
Serguei Pakhomov, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
pakh0002@umn.edu

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